A Newhall man was sentenced Tuesday to eight years and eight months in state prison for ramming a sheriff’s patrol car with a stolen pickup truck and then driving toward the deputy a second time.
Jesse Alan Tucker was convicted in May of assault on a peace officer, resisting an executive officer and fleeing from a pursuing peace officer’s motor vehicle while driving recklessly, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Tucker, 31, was also found guilty of two counts of driving or taking a vehicle without consent after a prior conviction, along with a misdemeanor count of vandalism with under $400 damage.
Tucker stole a Ford F-150 truck that had the name of a landscaping contractor on its side and was equipped with tracking equipment, which enabled deputies to locate the truck near Newhall Avenue and Sierra Highway on Feb. 2, 2015.
Tucker drove the stolen truck into a patrol car while he was being chased, then reversed the truck down an access road and aimed it at the deputy a second time, according to Deputy District Attorney Ryan Tracy.
The deputy fired one round that struck the truck’s passenger window before the vehicle crashed into a small retaining wall. Tucker fled on foot and was arrested late that night.
Less than a week earlier, Tucker had evaded two sheriff’s deputies as he drove through William S. Hart Park, causing property damage, Tracy said.
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Matt_K says
Oh Lord! How did this make the press? …You’ll be getting a phone call soon from FivePoint Group (formerly Newhall Land & Farm) asking you to remove this article because “bad things” are never supposed to happen in Stepford Clarita!
…It’s puppies, ice cream cones, bleach-blonde soccer moms and big megachurches! It’s “Awesometown”!
Tim Scott says
They are balancing the needs of Awesometown against the national imperative to flood the media with heroic-cop/cops-at-risk/cop-shows-restraint type stories.
Fulmenjacio says
Tim Scott, get off the couch and out from behind the safety of your computer. Grow a set and go on a ride along. Better yet, become a reservist for a law enforcement agency. You can be more than a weak man that constantly baits others into a never ending argument. You can make something of yourself. Go try it. Then others will give you the credit you will have earned.
Tim Scott says
LOL…the only way to “earn credit” is sit in a car with a cop? You have a pretty narrow world view, don’t you think?
Fulmenjacio says
Not at all Tim. Instead, I believe values such as personal responsibility, loyalty, duty, respect, sacrifice, selfless service, integrity, and personal courage can be found in professions such as military and law enforcement. I also believe in my ability to change things for the better for future generations. I believe that in order to protect the rights we as citizens have, I must be willing to take responsibility to effect change and preserve those rights. Simply making phone calls to the city or writing a comment on a web-based media outlet, will never have the impact I am responsible for. If I want to make my city/county/state or country, a better place, I must be willing to do more than argue with someone that doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to to stand up and effect change as well.
Tim Scott says
And you assume that’s who you are talking to because?
I did my time in the military. Not as much as some, more than most. I consider it insulting when people say “military and law enforcement” as if they were the same thing, or even in the same neighborhood.
Most of my interaction with the city staff is in person, not over the phone. That includes an extended trip through the mayor, local LASD captain, city staff member responsible for the contract with the LASD, and a host of others before they convinced me that there is no practical way to form our own police department and get disconnected from one of the worst law enforcement organizations in the country. Bottom line is the bottom line…they are inexpensive and even if that means swallowing a “ya get what ya pay for” reality that’s what we have to do.
I also find it hilarious that all these people who use words like “intestinal fortitude” or the common man’s “gutless” and act like they want to fight could find me pretty easily if they were really inclined. I’m at one volunteer event EVERY week and often two or three others. Anyone who wanted could start volunteering for the city of Palmdale and just watch for me. But, oddly, they make the effort to track me across the internet to other forums and never turn up anywhere.
So, go ye forth and effect change, and good on you. I make no harsh assumptions about you, but if I had I’d retract them. But this isn’t an assumption on my part: you want to just talk down to someone who disagrees with you without knowing thing one about them…and I have no respect for that.
Shane Falco says
All of the “coffee with a cop” designated for the public to interact with the sheriffs deputies in a relaxed and constructive manner…and Tim never goes.
Never on a ride along, never to a city council meeting, all of Tim’s dozens of years.
It goes to the point that Tim has disdain for the LASO and love for the criminals because has been arrested and convicted. He blames the deputies.
Tim Scott says
LOL…never to a city council meeting? Care to tell us how you come by this “knowledge”?
Oh. Never mind. When you don’t like someone you just make stuff up about them. Learned that from your dad the cop, I assume. Perjurer?
Admittedly, I’ve never been to “coffee with a cop.” I think it is a well intended program and would never do anything to disrupt it…and my presence might make that “relaxed” bit a little more difficult since a lot of deputies could recognize me and be uncomfortable.
Tim Scott says
Ten to one odds more city staff in Palmdale knows me on sight than you in Santa Clarita.